Meanings of curious instrument in English

And inside she found, carefully wrapped, a curious instrument faintly resembling an ocarina.

He did not move, but kept playing on his curious instrument.

And on the platform in the centre was a curious instrument on a tripod.

A curious instrument having a large wheel on one side caught the girl's attention.

This curious instrument was invented by Kotei, one of the three Chinese Emperors of the Mythological age.

It's a most curious instrument,-sometimesit seems to sound better when I have let it rest a little.

A very curious instrument is known as the Ta'khay, or Alligator: a glance at its form will readily account for its name.

While individuals here and there grasped the full significance of what the mysterious ticking of that curious instrument foretold, they were vastly in the minority.

But destiny, working through curious instruments, would not have it so.

Sometimes, too, after a steamer had called at the landing, parcels arrived containing books-scientificbooks they were-orcurious instruments.

9 As well in curious instruments, as cunning lays.

But curious instruments were heaped in the corners; and in one stood a skeleton, half-leaning against the wall, half-supported by a string about its neck.

36), the stilt dancer with a curious instrument (C), and the woman jumping through a hoop, give us other illustrations of fourteenth century amusements.